Another corrosive thing I saw recently was my friend who has a music page. She is on there several times a day to see if the ‘people like me’ counter has incremented, and gets excited when it has. She has like 60 fans, and while she is very talented and sounds good at the bar, I don’t see it becoming a career for her. She covers her babysitting when she has a gig once a month sort of thing. It is a fantastic outlet for her, but it’s not likely something she will get discovered doing, though not impossible, and that counter on facebook seems to really provide her with a meter that she puts much weight on. She seems to think it means something more than that 60 people have wanted to know more about her music. Like some day that number is going to explode and all her problems will be solved or something. I can’t blame facebook for that, but she gets very discouraged from her music because she has a way of measuring something and is not seeing “progress” in that thing, the knowledge of which only slows her down and takes her out of the moment - I think it discourages her creativity.
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